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Hollywood has inured us to NSA-style surveillancehttps://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jun/14/hollywood-nsa-surveillance-us-government
How did we get so complacent about agency eavesdropping? Movies have got us used to the sight of the human being as pixellated quarry, tracked by powerful technology<p>Last week's NSA leaks scandal had one scary side-story: a poll determining that a slim but clear majority of Americans weren't worried in the least about the 360-degree, all-platform access that the eavesdropping agency apparently now has to their phone, internet and wireless communications. Orwell's telescreen is part of our accepted digital furniture now, it seems, and Big Brother is regarded as a gentle protector rather than an iron-fisted tormentor <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jun/11/george-orwell-prism-big-brother-1984" title="">even as sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocket on Amazon</a>. And <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/92062/minority.report" title="">"precrime"</a>, a sci-fi concept of considerable vintage, is now a real thing, apparently. Another good reason that the representative fictional American citizen of our broken times is the zombie.</p><p>For a country overly prone to citing its foundational documents and the rights enshrined therein – at least one of which, the fourth amendment forbidding unlawful search and seizure, has been roundly trashed by the NSA – this seems oddly quiescent and meek, not the kind of attitude that throws off the yoke of colonial power, subdues a virgin continent, builds an industrial behemoth, does for the Nazis and the Japanese, and puts a man on the Moon.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jun/14/hollywood-nsa-surveillance-us-government">Continue reading...</a>NSAFilmThrillerWorld newsCultureSurveillancePrivacyUS newsFri, 14 Jun 2013 16:28:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jun/14/hollywood-nsa-surveillance-us-governmentPhotograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/UniversalTarget practised … Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/UniversalPhotograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/UniversalTarget practised … Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/UniversalJohn Patterson2013-06-14T16:28:00Z